Building many similar Android .apk files at the same time?

Question

I've got a single Android project which I need to build many .apk's from. The .apk's differ from each other in only a few ways:

1. there are a few values in the Android manifest file that differ from each other
2. some of the .apk's might exclude some files in the /res folder
3. different package name

What is the best way to build all these different .apk's automatically?

Thanks!

Answer 1

Use Android Maven plugin. It supports android library projects.

1. Create a multi-module project.
2. Put all common classes in one module (library).
3. Create a module for each app you want to distribute and make it depend on lib module.

Here is an example: https://github.com/jayway/maven-android-plugin-samples/tree/master/libraryprojects

(You will need to create several 'libraryprojects-mainapp' modules)